Pivotal support for piano-panels.



No. 800,616. PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905.

W. H. MATCHETT. v PIVOTAL SUPPORT FOR PIANO PANELS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 15, 1905.

WGSQQSI WMM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. MATCHETT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE P. BENT,OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PIVQTAL SUPPORT FOR PIANO-PANELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed April 15, 1905. Serial No. 255,718.

To roll whom 212% may concern:

Be it known that LWVILLIAM H. MA'roHE'r'r, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in PivotalSupports for Piano- Panels, of which the following is a full, clear,concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to supporting devices for supporting the frontpanels of pianos.

Prominent objects of the invention are to provide a simple, practical,and inexpensive supporting device to allow for the easy and readyremoval of the front panel from the piano, and a similarly easy andready replacement of the same in its proper position, and to accomplishthe foregoing and other desirable results in a simple and expeditiousmanner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion ofthe front of the piano, having a supporting device embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Figs. 3and i are detail views of the supporting device on a larger scale.

I have shown in the drawings a portion of a piano consisting of anupright end portion 1 and a top portion 2. A front panel 3 is supportedin the usual place below the top 2, which latter is desirably madeeither removable or hinged, so that it can be swung back to open up theinterior of the piano.

The panel 3 is supported by a clip 4:, having a prong or finger 5, and aslot 6 located in the rear of the prong 5 and running upward alongsidethereof. A screw 7 is inserted in the end of the panel 3 and is of suchsize that its shank is adapted to fit and slide in the slot 6 of theclip 4. The head of the screw 7 is larger than the slot 6, whereby thescrew is held or engaged by the clip 4:. It is understood, of course,that each end of the pianoframe 1 is provided with a clip 4, which clipsare conveniently secured in position by screws 8 8, and each end of thepanel 3 is correspondingly provided with a screw 7, so that the twoscrews 7 7 fit and slide in the slots 6 6. By turning the screws 7 7 oneway or the other an adjustment of their heads can be secured to permit aperfect adjustment of the panel between the upright end portions 1 1. Bysuch arrangement it will be seen that the panel 3 can be hung by simplylowering it along the inner edge 9 of the supportingpost at the cornerof the piano, and thus the screws 7 7 will engage the prongs 5 5 and bedeflected into the slots 6 6, down which said screws will pass. Uponarriving at the bottom of these slots the screws 7 7 come to rest, asupon bearings, so that these clips with their screws 7 7 form pivotalsupports for the ends of the panel.

It will be understood that changes and modifications can be made withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A supporting device comprising a clipi having a prong 5 extending out beyond the edge of the clip, and aslotlocated within the prong 5 in combination with a pivot adapted to fitand work in the slot 6.

2. A clip comprising a body portion and a prong 5 extending laterallyoutward from the body portion, which latter is provided with a slot 6extending alongside of the body portion 5.

In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my name this 8th day of March,A. D. 1905.

WILLIAM H. MATOHETT.

WVitnesses:

Jos. W. HEGEMAN, I. C. LEE.

